DailyPost 2124 SOLARWINDS TACTICS IS BACK! SolarWinds hacks as it is known was detected in Dec 2020, was a supply chain attack on its Orion software. It is widely used in government and industry. As it came as a part of patch management / upgrade, so there was no way it could be suspected. Fire […]
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DailyPost 2122 DIGITAL IMPOSTER! Ransomware has been keeping the security teams and the world on its toes. The security challenges of the ever-expanding galaxy of Internet of Things devices and of cloud computing have added extremely complex dimensions to the ever-fragile cyber security scenario. If this was not enough, we are already in the age
DailyPost 2119 LIVES ON RANSOM! Hostage and ransom have been known to the criminal world for ages. It is executed in a variety of ways, for different reasons and motives. Criminal gangs to terrorists all indulge in this act, mostly for ransom and at times for other reasons. This takes a quantum leap in the
DailyPost 2118 RANOMWARE’S NEWEST VICTIM Agility of the hackers have always held us in awe and surprise since the time they have been turning the world topsy turvy. Cyber security remains the world’s leading security challenge since 2014. The situation has only worsened and there doesn’t seem to a silver lining on the horizon. We
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DailyPost 2116 PHISHING THE PERSONAL WAY! As much as we would love to believe that we are immune to scams by scoffing at emails offering $2 million dollars for bank details, a different era is now unfolding for the users. The beauty of technology is its ability to change and surprise us every time by
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DailyPost 2111 CHANGING CYBER SECURITY – IS COLLABORATION THE ANSWER? The fast-changing cyber security landscape have thrown open the chinks in the armour. While we know of it, we have not been able to do much about it. The bigger IT and other organizations because of the financial and technical clout they have are able
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DailyPost 2103 NCSC’s WARNING If somebody were to say that there is a security concern, bigger than even the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war; which has put the global security and economy in a disarray, one would be awestruck. You would find it difficult believe it and you would keep rattling your brain for the right answer.
DailyPost 2100 PEGASUS’S EUROPEAN SOJOURN NSO, the company which has created the most lethal cyber weapon in the world, called Pegasus, the ultimate spyware, has always maintained the it was being sold only to governments. The sale was under strict supervision of the Israeli government, as per the legal protocol and things have been running
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DailyPost 2091 BLACK CAT – THE CHANGING RANSOMWARE DIMENSIONS! That ransomware is the biggest cybercrime or a leading cyber security threat is a misnomer. What it actually entails in crippling whatever it intends to. We have seen this happening over and over again from the days of WannaCry to recent attacks on Colonial Pipelines and
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DailyPost 2071 ARE WE RANSOMWARE READY? Do we need to be ransomware ready? The answer to this has to be a strong affirmative for anybody, who has even the slightest knowledge of the changing cyber security landscape. Is India moving in that direction, if the situation is so dire. First the ransomware landscape. Recent experience
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DailyPost 2048 CYBER SECURITY – LURE THEMES Lure themes are liked as much by the hackers as the hacked themselves. Though the theme remains the same at both the ends, for one it is a weapon and for the other a decoy for which he falls unknowingly, sometimes being unaware even after the hack. This
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